· Public charity
United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc
Mission statement - to have an enduring impact in effingham county by connecting community resources with changing needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $126,603 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,326 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $30,629 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCY | $20,420 |
| CEFS MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,315 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF EFFINGHAM CO | $11,231 |
| STOP WOMEN'S ABUSE NOW | $10,210 |
| EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERV | $8,678 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CIL | $6,126 |
| ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES | $6,126 |
| ONE HOPE UNITED | $6,126 |
| HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES | $6,126 |
| ILLINOIS DEER DONATION PROGRAM | $5,616 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +39%
- CECEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +34%
- SWStopping Woman Abuse Now9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +38%
Funded once
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Crisis nursery of effingham county's mission is to prevent and protect children from trauma, abuse, and neglect by providing a free, 24-hour emergency shelter care program for children birth through six years of age.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Provide advocacy services for abused children in Central Alabama.
Entity provides quality social services and compassionate care to abused, neglected, and dependent children, and improves the quality of life through adoption counseling, and intact family services.
The trained volunteers of CASA of South Central Illinois will work with legal and child welfare professionals, educators, and service providers to advocate for the best interests of children that have experienced abuse and/or neglect that…
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Child Advocacy Services
Child abuse awareness and prevention
Advocate for abused and neglected children. recruiting, training, and monitoring of volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children referred by the courts.
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.
Provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, and counseling to victims and their children of domestic violence and sexual assault. community education. 24 hour crisis hotline. court and legal advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Effingham County Fish Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Stopping Woman Abuse Now (Swan). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN) ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CITY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds One Hope United - Hudelson Region ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM UNIT 40 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE NFP ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Effingham County ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Midland Area Agency on Aging · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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